EvilZone
General Tech => Hardware => : Kulverstukas October 04, 2010, 05:02:24 PM
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Tutorial by Kulverstukas. w00t.
Hello. Here I will show you how, in a very simple way, to make your old as earth flash drive bootable again! It worked for me very good when I wanted to make my flash drive carry Puppy Linux. Doing this way, the computer must support booting from a flash drive whatsoever, although I am not 100% sure about that, because I didn't have old enough PC that would not support booting from a flash drive. So to make your flash drive bootable we will be using a tool called "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool" (only windows) and "Windows 95" files. You can download everything from here: http://www.mediafire.com/?mmw3dh3scrz0cl6
- When you will download everything, install the tool, plug in the flash and see what is happening.
- Choose your flash drive, choose the file system (FAT32) and write something in "Volume Label" - this is not needed but if you do then the flash drive will be named as you would write it.
- Leave "Quick format" alone, let the tool do it completely.
- On the last, "Create DOS starup disk" Click on the last option and choose the "win95boot" folder which was in the archive.
- Press start and wait for it to finish.
When it's done the flash drive will be formatted and the files needed for booting will be copied. Now when you will install some system, like Linux (what else... :P) do not format the drive or everything will be gone and you will have to re-do everything.
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Mirror: http://evilzone.org/downloads/failai_bootinimuj.zip :)
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Do you have a solution for a computer that doesn't have USB boot ? That computer have 2 USB ports but it doesn't have USB boot option.
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Do you have a solution for a computer that doesn't have USB boot ? That computer have 2 USB ports but it doesn't have USB boot option.
Your only hope would be a bios update. Its up to the bios to allow to boot off of USB. The older the board the less likely you will be able to do it unless you can flash the bios with a newer one. If you'd like I can look more into it if you give me the model number of the board you're looking to boot off of.
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I'm using UNetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) to create my flash drives boot-able which is a pretty neat tool, although I'm not sure if it supports Puppy Linux.
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I'm using UNetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) to create my flash drives boot-able which is a pretty neat tool, although I'm not sure if it supports Puppy Linux.
I have used that one aswell, for my tablet with no cd-rom :)
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Yep, it supports Puppy Linux and a variety other systems. UNetBootIn comes on Windows AND Linux. Cool eh? :D
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UNetBootIn is the best there is as far as creating a bootable usb for both windows (if you have an iso) as well as various nix distros. However that wont fix the problem if the bios doesn't support booting off of a USB stick ;)
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And I'm just gonna go with everyone and say I also support Unetbootin. Simple and effective tool.
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Universal USB Installer (http://www.pendrivelinux.com/downloads/Universal-USB-Installer/Universal-USB-Installer.exe) is supposed to work great as well. The folks at ubuntu.com recommend that to write an ubuntu image to a USB flashdrive.
Note, I've never used this before, I always use Unetbootin. Works great, other than that it fucked my USB flashdrive over. (it rewrote the partition table, nothing big :3)
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Well... this tools : http://old.linuxliveusb.com/ (http://old.linuxliveusb.com/) also does install all kinds of distros to USB flash drive. It's also written in AutoIT and comes only for Windows.
I have used this few times in the past before I discovered UNetBootInt and I must say it works great aswell.
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Cool post, how much space does UNetbootin take up on the drive?
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2.789kB on my drive.
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I personally like Katana:
http://www.hackfromacave.com/katana.html#katana_download (http://www.hackfromacave.com/katana.html#katana_download)
If I remember correctly you extract the .rar archive straight to your flash and then run the install batch file in the boot folder.
It is a nice suite of tools if you have a large flash drive.
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Cool post, how much space does UNetbootin take up on the drive?
That depeneds on the distro you want. Puppy Linux takes ~900 MB installed.
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Do you have a solution for a computer that doesn't have USB boot ? That computer have 2 USB ports but it doesn't have USB boot option.
PLoP Boot Manager is sweet for that. It can be installed to disk, USB, CD, or floppy. I keep a spare PLoP BM floppy lying around in case I need to work on old computers.